Building / Compilation Instructions for the Windows-OpenACS System

This page shows how the Windows-OpenACS has been built/compiled. Hopefully it can be of some help for people willing to try to undertake a similar endeavour.

Take Note

These instructions are not complete, they just provide some hints on how to compile and build the Windows-OpenACS system. Spazio IT offers consultancies on compiling, installing and running Naviserver as well as OpenACS based applications.

Common Instructions

This is the common algorithm/workflow used to build each single component.

• Get the sources – you can find the sources on the net or use the ones contained in the Windows-OpenACS distribution.
• Locate the “win” build folder
• Modify/Correct as required the makefiles and the source codes – the changes/corrections to be applied depend on the actual version of the Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Compiler in use; the Windows-OpenACS distribution contains the sources that have been modified to be compiled with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 C/C++ Compiler
• Execute in sequence
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads INSTALLDIR=c:\naviserver
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads INSTALLDIR=c:\naviserver install
• Copy all the *.exe, *.dll and *.manifest files into c:\naviserver\bin
• Copy the *.lib files into c:\naviserver\lib

Tcl

• Extract/Unzip the Tcl sources under c:\tcl8.6.13
• Go in the directory c:\tcl8.6.13\win
• Enter in sequence
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads INSTALLDIR=c:\naviserver
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads INSTALLDIR=c:\naviserver install

Tk

• Extract/Unzip the Tk sources under c:\tk8.6.13
• Go in the directory c:\tk8.6.13\win
• Enter in sequence
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads TCLDIR=c:\tcl8.6.13 INSTALLDIR=c:\naviserver
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads TCLDIR=c:\tcl8.6.13 INSTALLDIR=c:\naviserver install

tDOM

• Extract/Unzip the tDOM sources under c:\tDOM-0.9.1
• Go in the directory c:\tDOM-0.9.1\win
• Execute in sequence
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads TCLDIR=c:\tcl8.6.11 INSTALLDIR=c:\naviserver
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads TCLDIR=c:\tcl8.6.11 INSTALLDIR=c:\naviserver install

XOTcl (nsf)

• Extract/Unzip the XOTcl sources under c:\nsf-2.3.0
• Go in the directory c:\nsf-2.3.0\win
• Execute in sequence
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads TCLDIR=C:\tcl8.6.11 TCLSH=tclsh86t INSTALLDIR=c:\naviserver
  • nmake -f makefile.vc OPTS=threads TCLDIR=C:\tcl8.6.11 TCLSH=tclsh86t INSTALLDIR=c:\naviserver install

Tcllib

• Extract/Unzip the Tcllib sources under c:\tcllib-1.20
• Go in the directory c:\tcllib-1.20
• Execute
  • \naviserver\bin\tclsh86t installer.tcl

OpenSSL

• Extract/Unzip the OpenSSL sources under c:\openssl-3.1.3
• Go in the directory c:\openssl-3.1.3
• Execute in sequence
  • perl Configure VC-WIN64A no-asm
  • nmake
  • nmake install

zlib

• Extract/Unzip the zlib sources under c:\zlib-1.2.11
• Go in the directory zlib-1.2.11
• Execute in sequence
  • nmake -f win32\Makefile.msc
  • copy *.lib C:\naviserver\lib
  • copy zlib.lib C:\naviserver\lib\zlibstat.lib

Naviserver
A Visual Studio 2019 Solution File is included in the distribution.

libthread

• Extract/Unzip the libthread sources under c:\thread2.8.6
• Go in the directory c:\thread2.8.6\win
• Execute in sequence
  • nmake -nologo -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=C:\tcl8.6.11 INSTALLDIR=C:\naviserver ADDOPTDEFINES=”-DNS_AOLSERVER” ADDLINKOPTS=”\naviserver\lib\nsd.lib \naviserver\lib\nsthread.lib /export:Ns_ModuleInit /export:Ns_ModuleVersion”
  • nmake -nologo -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=C:\tcl8.6.11 INSTALLDIR=C:\naviserver ADDOPTDEFINES=”-DNS_AOLSERVER” ADDLINKOPTS=”\naviserver\lib\nsd.lib \naviserver\lib\nsthread.lib /export:Ns_ModuleInit /export:Ns_ModuleVersion” install

Good luck!